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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Food find: McDonalds cinnamon melts hurts my heart

I eat way, way too much fast food. That said, I have an iron stomach and an adventurous nature, so when I was starving one morning recently, I picked up a McDonald's Cinnamon Meltsthing for breakfast. They advertise it as just the middle of the cinnamon bun, "commonly known as the best part."

Well, it didn't look like the best part. Essentially, it was a cinnamon pastry put in a mold made to look like it was "freestyle" or something. Don't get me wrong, it was delicious. The pastry was kind of moist, plenty of cinnamon flavor and coated with butter and icing. The toppings weren't distributed evenly, which is kind of annoying, but I was hungry and it tasted good.

In the course of writing this, I did a little research. McDonald's does not list this item in breakfast, but rather, under desserts. Probably because this little "snack" rings in at 460 calories!

But, I'm sure you can make it better for you if you tried this make-at-home version of the Melts recipe. I can't vouch to the recipe's ability to replicate the real thing, but it can't be that difficult because the presentation is messy by design.

really overweight old guy in my office, eats one of these every morning. It kills me to watch him. once in a while, as a treat, I can see .. but every morning.. without fail ?.. ugh.. killing himself with food. :\